Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Old rating from 2010 - Pint from the cask at the Baltic Fleet. Pours dark brown with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of coffee, chocolate, dark fruits, liquorice, earth & roasted malt. Medium body. Dry finish

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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Sehr dunkel braune Farbe, schöne bräunliche Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr röstmalzig, Schokolade. Geschmack sehr röstmalzig, Schokolade, kräftig hopfig.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Hand-pulled pint in it’s home, The Baltic Fleet, Liverpool on 7th Feb 2014. It looks like a Stout: black with an off-white foam on top. It smells like a Stout: over roasted malts with coffee and chocolate hints. Tastes like a Stout: Malty, coffee and chocolate again, slightly burnt overtone to the whole flavourings. Medium bodied with a gentle feel, slips down well.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

scura discreta schiuma media persistenza tostature non molto intense discreto amaro finale un po corto

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Black colour with a beige head. Coffee and raosted malt aroma. Dry texture. Mild sweetness and a fine bitterness. medium pluss body. A fine well balanced flavour with coffee and roasted malt dominating the picture. A light fruity note as well. Nice!
[Bottle from The Ship in a Bottle in Liverpool, England]

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask, one-third pint, at the P6 Nightingale Bar, GBBF’11, evening session. Completely black body, bare naked surface. Grainy malty nose with notes of chocolate and coffee. Roasted malts in flavour added by lighter notes tart fruits. Coffee bitterness to the ending (London, 03.08.2011).

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask@GBBF2011. Quite much black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is roasted malts, liquorice, dark fruits, some wood and mild toasted notes. Flavour is mild roasted malts, some liquorice, toasted notes as well as some dry dark fruity notes and mild ashes in the finish.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From cask. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark roasted malty and breadish. Light liqourice. Dark malty and light sweetness. Bitter, dry malty and liqourice finish.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Cask at GBBF, Day 4. Pours black-brown with a foamy, tan head. Big mocha nose, rich roasted malts, some chocolate syrup. Nice flavor, restrained roastiness to the malts, dry roast coffee, mild milk cocoa, light ash and tobacco. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Great balance on the finish, medium roast, burnt sugar, some burnt wood, mild ash, mocha. Delicious. Excellent stout.